creme

creme (comparative more creme, superlative most creme)

1. Alternative spelling of crème.

creme (countable and uncountable, plural cremes)

1. Alternative spelling of crème.

creme (third-person singular simple present cremes, present participle creming, simple past and past participle cremed)

1. Alternative spelling of crème.

• McRee, c'mere, merce

From French crème, a merger of Late Latin chrisma (“ointment”) (from Ancient Greek χρῖσμα (khrîsma, “unguent”)) and Late Latin crama (“skim”) (from Gaulish *crama).

• IPA^(key): [ˈkʰʁ̥ɛˀm]

creme c (singular definite cremen, plural indefinite cremer)

1. cream
2. custard
3. polish

• → Faroese: krem

From French crème.

• IPA^(key): [kʁeːm], [kʁɛːm]
• Hyphenation: creme

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creme (indeclinable)

1. cream (color/colour)

   Synonyms: cremefarben, cremefarbig

• Creme

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): [ˈkʁeːmə]
• Hyphenation: cre‧me

creme

1. inflection of cremen:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative

• “creme” in Duden online
• “creme” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

• IPA^(key): /ˈkrɛ.me/
• Rhymes: -ɛme
• Hyphenation: crè‧me

creme f

1. plural of crema

• merce, mercé

From Old French cresme, creme, craime, a blend of Late Latin crisma (from Ancient Greek χρῖσμα (khrîsma)) and crāmum. Doublet of crisme.

• crayme, creem, creeme, crem, creyme, kreme

• IPA^(key): /ˈkrɛːm(ə)/

creme (uncountable)

1. chrism (mixture of oil and balsam)
2. cream (fatty part of milk)
3. (by extension) A cream dish.
4. (rare) The sacrament of Confirmation.

• English: cream (see there for further descendants)

• “crēme, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
• “crēme, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

creme

1. alternative form of cromen

• Hyphenation: cre‧me
• Rhymes: -emi

Borrowed from French crème,^[1][2] from Late Latin crāmum (“skim”), from Gaulish *crama.

creme m (plural cremes)

1. (uncountable) milkfat, cream

   Synonym: nata

2. (uncountable) any substance of similar texture
3. an amount or type of the substance
4. cream (color/colour)
   • 1890, Aluizio Azevedo, O Cortiço, Rio de Janeiro: B. L. Garnier:

     O enterro da pequenita foi feito à custa de Léonie, que apareceu às três da tarde, vestida de cetineta cor de creme, num carrinho dirigido por um cocheiro de calção de flanela branca e libré agaloada de ouro.

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• (cream (milk product)): nata

• cremoso

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

creme

1. inflection of cremar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

• IPA^(key): /ˈkre.me/

creme

1. plural of cremă

creme

1. inflection of cremar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative